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submitted 9 months ago by Flax_vert@feddit.uk to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

I keep seeing the same names popping up. I think it's rather cute!

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[-] Marsupial@quokk.au 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I saw many names frequently pop up on reddit, it was the reposter’s and karma whores.

I see many names frequently pop up on Lemmy and it’s people trying to fill the same spot.

Frankly this is exactly what I don’t want to happen. This small time celebrity like worshipping that comes with certain posters was extremely popular on BBboards and made it incredibly hard and uninviting for new people to join in these already established communities.

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 9 months ago
[-] poppy@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

Yeah, it’s funny to see this be heralded as a good/wholesome thing when I know back on Reddit it was maligned as “power users”.

[-] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 9 months ago

The difference is probably that here if you disagree with admins, mods or power users you can just migrate your community to another instance.

[-] anonymoose@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

Also on Reddit being a poweruser meant that you could probably sell/loan your account to shady advertisers, which isn't as much of a problem here since the Fediverse isn't monetized by ads.

Additionally, I think power users are a problem if they're just blindly spamming posts without engaging with the community, not so much if they're just organically filling the void with posts.

I <3 lemmy's prolific posters. o7

this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2024
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